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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Logic, Language and Computation
Edited By: Patrick Blackburn
Atsushi Shimojima
Lawrence Cavedon
Nick Braisby
Description:

With the rise of the internet and the proliferation of technology to gather and organize data, our era has been defined as "the information age." With the prominence of information as a research concept, there has arisen an increasing appreciation of the intertwined nature of fields such as logic, linguistics, and computer science that answer the questions about information and the ways it can be processed. The many research traditions do not agree about the exact nature of information. By bringing together ideas from diverse perspectives, this book presents the emerging consensus about what a conclusive theory of information should be. The book provides an introduction to the topic, work on the underlying ideas, and technical research that pins down the richer notions of information from a mathematical point of view. The book contains contributions to a general theory of information, while also tackling specific problems from artificial intelligence, formal semantics, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of mind. There is focus on the dynamics of information flow, and also a consideration of static approaches to information content; both quantitative and qualitative approaches are represented.

Publication Year: 2001
Publisher: CSLI Publications
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Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1575862689
ISBN-13: N/A
Pages: 356
Prices: $25.00

 
 
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 1575862670
ISBN-13: N/A
Pages: 356
Prices: $65.00